There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment.

Religion must be loved as a kind of country and nursing-mother. It was religion that nourished our virtues, that showed us heaven, that taught us to walk in the path of duty.

All good verses are like impromptus made at leisure.

We shall always keep a spare corner in our heads to give passing hospitality to our friends' opinion.

Grace imitates modesty, as politeness imitates kindness.

Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.

All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.